[x-post] Managing choices in large development orgs

I am inheriting 15k+ strong, globally spread development organization in a software development company.

Historically, company amassed cocktail of technology stacks, programming models for different cloud applications.

Home grown was rather standardised, till the acquisitions came one by one.

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Right now, the immediate challenge is to reign in the technology chaos, but also offer the freedom ** to different development teams. (the balance)

** e.g. freedom of Iaas – or an abstraction (e.g. k8s), or build on opiniated PaaS.

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I know there is no clear answer to these kind of questions, but I want to hear from those who have tried – what worked, what failed.

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